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Doug Fridsma, MD, director of the ONC's Office of Science and Technology, likes to tell his staff: "If we're going to make mistakes, lets make new ones; let's not make old ones." Fridsma, told attendees at the 2013 Government Health IT Conference that his office has several goals in fueling health IT innovation.

When stakeholders, federal officials and proponents of electronic health records first tossed around the idea of providing incentives to help move the giant boulder of progress up the mountain, there were plenty of skeptics. How can you take physicians who are set in their ways – and patients who are used to those ways – and change all the rules? But, change they did, and in just two years since the EHR Incentive Program began, more hospitals and physicians than ever before have gone digital.

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has announced it will establish a new working group to support the recent White House cybersecurity executive order.

This year's HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition was on a whole new plane above previous years. Each year, it seems the size, excitement and sheer volume of information available at the show grows exponentially.

Former President Bill Clinton, founder of The William J. Clinton Foundation, 42nd President of the United States and as many might say, the country's speaker-in-chief, takes the stage at HIMSS13 on Wednesday, March 6.

While their colleagues in Washington are starting to take interest in the promises of digital health, lawmakers in several states are forging ahead with their own legislative ideas. According to the American Telemedicine Association, seven states and the District of Columbia have seen bills introduced in the past four weeks that address coverage and reimbursement for telemedicine services.

No one would have guessed how far and how fast the federal incentive program for the adoption of EHRs would grow. Funding was mandated in 2009 under the HITECH ACT, with an estimated total expenditure anticipated at $20 billion. That payout has already reached $9.2B in the program's second year of a five-year program.

A new consumer survey of more than 1,200 voters conducted by PwC Health Research Institute (HRI) found that 69 percent want President Barack Obama to make reducing costs his top healthcare priority in his second term, but reducing spending on IT initiatives could be troublesome for the Administration.

Slowly but surely, state health and human services agencies are recognizing the transformative potential of information technology, according to a report published this week by the American Public Human Services Association and Microsoft.